Carlos Lehder

Carlos Lehder (11 September 1949-) was a German-Colombian drug lord and a co-founder of the Medellin Cartel.

Biography
Carlos Lehder was born on 11 September 1949 in Armenia, Colombia, the son of a German father and Colombian mother. He loved John Lennon and Adolf Hitler, and he worked as a stolen car smuggler, marijuana dealer, and, later, a cocaine trafficker. By 1979, he was flying marijuana into the United States with a fleet of planes alongside Carlos Jung, making Lehder a rich playboy. However, his life was changed when he met "El Leon", and he began to smuggle the first cocaine into Miami that year. On 19 November 1981, he was nearly killed back in Colombia by kidnappers from M-19 leading to Lehder founding  Muerte a Secuestradores (MAS), a counter-insurgent paramilitary group. In 1984, he was arrested for the murder of Minister of Justice Rodrigo Lara, and he was extradited to the United States and sentenced to 55 years in prison.